34 - Wednesday, June 23, 1993 ~ Nurth Shore News Band biast NORTH VANCOUVER District Councillor Ernie Crist lashed out at his fellow councillors and the North Shore Arts Commission last week, calling them ‘“warped’’ and “clueless” for failing to sup- port his bid to turn the North Vancouver Youth Band into North Vancouver's official community band. Crist had proposed a motion over a year ago that the district, together with the City of North Vancouver, support the local band by paying for its operating expenses at a cost of roughly $40,000 to local taxpayers. But council, acting on the recommendation of the Arts Commis- sion, rejected his proposal at their meeting last week. In a report to council, commission chairwoman Phyllis Mailing writes that Crist’s scheme would set ‘’an unfortunate precedent that could lead to requests for official representatives of other artistic disciplines.” ; ; . “That's the level of their mentality,” Crist said of the Arts Com- mission. “With friends like this in the arts community, who needs enemies?” Crist said North Vancouver must work much harder than it has at raising the profile of the local arts, ‘“‘We have to break out of this medieval, backward thinking and put the arts where we've put rec- reation.” ws NEWS photo Cindy Goodman TERESA “WACKY T."" Waclawik conjures up likenesses of people at the North Vancouver Com- munity Arts Council’s annual craft fair. The local caricaturist will be on hand through the entire fair, running at 14th and Lonsdale unti! June 26. The craft fair is being held in conjunction with Fotkfest. Payne in Prelude PLAYING A traditional mom from the. suburbs and a woman 10° years her senior isn’t as difficult to relate to as you may think, says Deep Cove actor Suzie Payne, who co-stars with actor David King as the aging parents of the principle characters in Prelude to a.Kiss,. |: the Obie award-winning modern love story by Craig Lucas. (Blue .} Window, Reckless, Longtime Companion). Pee The play, which revoives around an aspiring graphic designer who . hasn't slept since she was 14, and her relationship with a quirky photographer, runs to July 10 at the Aris Club Theatre. ° “It's been a big challenge,’ Payne, who was last seen on stage at the Arts Club in Blood Relations, said. ‘Her activities revolve: |. around golf, gardening ... but she’s not spineless, not passive, .just-| -’ someone who finds herself tested in terms of taking a stand and re- St. David's United Church: Songs for a Summer Night. A showcase of voice and organ featuring soprano Vilma Head, tenor Paull de Verheyen and organist Donald Forbes, june 25 at 8 p.m. Tickets: $10/8. Info: 822- 2678, Hendry Hall: Philadelphia, Here | Come. North Vancouver Coni- Back Alley Theatre/ Arts Club Revue Theatre: Theatresports munity Players offers audiences a sneak preview of its Mainstage ‘93 festival entry. June 24 and 25, Tickets: $10/8. Info: 983-2633, Centennial Theatre: Mainstage ‘93, Festival of B.C. plays kicks off with The Sea Horse, presented by Attic Theatre, June 27: Stops Along the Way; Stage North Theatre Society. Next! (Showcase), by REBECCA DEMORNAY. and Don now showing at Esplanade 6. Wheelwood Productions. June 28: The Zao Story; Maple Ridge Players. The Lesson; Shawnigan Lake Players. June 29: The Field, Prince George Theatre Workshop. June 30: Philadelphia, Here | Come, North Vancouver Com- munity Players. ~— Curtain time is 8 p.m., except June 26 at 9 p.m. Tickets: 984- 4484, : Elsewhere Arts Club Mainstage Theatre: Prelude to a Kiss: Charming fan- tasy comedy about the wonder and confusion of love starring North Vancouver actor Suzie Payne. Runs to July 10. Tues.-Fri. at 8 p.m.; Wed. at 8:30 p.m.; Sat. at 6 and 9:30 p.m. Dorothy Somerset Studio: UBC Summer Stock repertory season opens with Wait Until Dark, the suspense classic made famous by the Audrey Hepburn movie. Directed by Sandhano Schultze, the play runs june 24, 26, 28, 30 at unleashes improv-mania, Program includes Young and the Scriptless (Saturdays at 11 p.m.) Alley Oops! (Wednesdays at 8 p.m.); Turn Styles (Thursdays at 8 p.m.); The Comic Section (Fridays at 7 p.m.), and Too Late (Fridays, 11:30 p.m. at the Revue Club: Info: 687- 1644.) For information, phone 688-7013. Johnson star in Guilty as Sin Moves. Park and Tilford: jurassic Park (Digital): Nightly: 7, 9:40. Jurassic Park: 6:30. 9:10. Hot Shots Part Deux: 7:20, 9:20. Cliffhanger. 7:15, 9:45, Once Upon a Forest: 6:45, 8:15. Last Action Hero: 7:10, 9:50, Matinee info: 985-3971, Esplanade 6: Life With Mikey: Nightly: 7, 9:10; Sliver. 7:05, 9:20. Aladdin: Sat/Sun: 2:20 matinee only. Dave: 7:20, 9:35; Super Mario Bros: 7:15, 9:25. Guilty as Sin: 7:10, 9:30, Made in America: 725, 9:40. Matinee info: 983- Deep Cove Shaw Theatre: Den- ny Clark and his Quartet, with special guest Sibel Thrasher. June 27 at 4 p.m. Tickets: 10/8 at the door. . 8 p.m. Tickets: $10/8, available ° from 922-3961. pipereenngees Es ae The Coach House: Abandoned Youth. June 25, 26. Queens Cross Neighbourhood Pub: Silverlode. June 27 at 8 p.m. North Shore Presentation House Gallery: Fif- ty-year retrospective of Helen Levitt. Levitt is considered one of the greatest living U.S. documen- tary photographers. To July 25. Lorna Brown. Character: Project for Presentation House. A photographic study of Presentation House. To July 25. Sitk Purse: Tribute to master weaver Gertrude Griffin. To June 27. Sponsored by the West Vancouver Community Arts Council. Seymour Art Gallery: Capilano College Studio Show.. Exhibition of work from first-and-second year diploma program students and members of the Art Institute. To July 4. Gallery hours: Tues.-Fri. from 12 to 4 p.m.; Thursdays to 9 p.m.; Sat. and Sun. 1-4 p.m. Arts in the Cove: summer workshops for young people aged seven to 18, Courses include painting, music, storytelling and drama, morning and/or afternoon weekly sessions, July 5-Sept.3. In- fo: 929-5744, West Vancouver Memorial Library: Inthe Belly of a Whale. Rod Gildersleeve. July 5-Aug.1. North Vancouver City Half foyer: Emaime and Joan Martin. Mother and daughter team up for jJoint-exhibit. To July 14. Spon- sored by the North Vancouver Community Arts Council. Bernadette’s Galleries: James C. Christensen. Prints, hand-colored etchings, posters and bronzes. To June 27. Harrison Galleries: Various works by gallery artists: Nichelas Bott, eorge Bates, Daniel Izzard, Kiff Holland, Jose Trinidad, Celia Col-- lin and Jose Salvador. 2022 Park Royal South Mall. * ae sponsibility for het choices. | think there’s something for everyone to relate to in her.” Shadbolt unveiling THE CHATEAU Room of le Meridien Hotel will be the scene of an important art event next Monday, June 28, from 5 to 8 p.m. . That’s when Garden in Flux, a new limited-edition color etching * by artist Jack Shadbolt, will be unveiled. _ y The edition of $9 is expected to sell out quickly and will benefit: student artists in the region. Shadbolt has dedicated all proceeds from the sale of the original prints — an anticipated $118,000 — to the non-profit arts enrich-. ment programs of the Artists for Kids Trust. mo -_ Other. artists who have contributed to the North: Vancouver School fund include Gordon Smith, Robert. Bateman, ‘Gathie: Falk, Joe Fafard and Alan Wood. Short film central! to show From page 27 black-and-white to dye transfer color prints (24 of which are in- cluded in this show), she no more succumbed to the new photo- journalism of Arbus than she had to the more overtly social- documentary realism of Walker Evans, Bernice Adams and Weegee in the '40s and ‘50s. From the late ’30s on, the streets of New York have provided Levitt with an ideal and constant backdrop for commemorating the tender, human drama of its denizens, a drama whose portray- al probably more fully reflects the artist’s benevolent vision of human nature than the whole truth of the milieux she recorded. Utilizing her 35-millimetre Lieca, often equipped with its 90-degree viewfinder, she was able to transfix forever the immediacy of the tran- sient moment without distracting her subjects or compromising the dramatic potential of their day- to-day lives. By narrowing her focus to the poor and dispossessed, to the seemingly powerless victims of Harlem, the Bronx and the Lower East Side, to the elderly, on whose faces are graven boredom, hope- lessness and énnui, to the ghetto blacks, the Hispanics, the poor - immigrant whites — all of whom she intimately understood and - “ obviously loved — Helen Levitt, in - ‘her perseverance and dedication to her art, was able to unmask’... - their plight'‘and reveal something.” of the modest joys and quiet digni ty of their lives.. US That hopeful spirit in the face o! defeat is best exemplified in Levitt’s tireless preoccupation with ° children. Pe a With the elusiveness of myth, |... Levitt’s photographs of children defy temporal specificity. Central to this show, in fact, is the poignant documentary film In the Street, which she made with Janice Loeb and James Agee in 1952, ‘ This silent film, whose quirky piano accompaniment evokes a Gershwin score nostalgically paraphrased by Charles Ives, is a celebration of childhood that says more about the optimism of the human spirit in its brief span of 16 ; minutes than a dozen talking : feature films rolled into one. *,.°: In Levitt’s street urchins is foun the universality of the desponden- cy and capitulation of the adults who surroundthem, =, Unlike Character, the rather .- cold and trivial post-madernist ex- ercise upstairs by Lorna Brown (an installation which purports to promote the cause of Presentation House with its pretentious display of enigma and trite allusion) this show, like so many others of its calibre, is the true justification for -. the preservation of Presentation House.